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(No Model.)

No.A 2.92,'360.

YHARNESS SADDLE.

Patpnted Jan. 22,'1-884;

,IJNITED vSTATES.

PATENT OFFICE. '7

.ALONZO o. EIOKEY, OE BOONE, IOWA, AND EDWIN D. MYEEs, OE woOsTEE,

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HARNESS-SA D'D LE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,360, dated January 22, 1884.

Application filed April 30, 1883. (No model.)

To all wiz/0771, t nfl/ay concern.:

Be it known that we, ALONZO C. RIOKEY and EDWIN D. MYEEs, citizens of the United States, residing at Boone, Boone county, Iowa,

and Wooster, Vayne county, Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Harness-Saddles, of which the followingis aspeciiication.

Our invention relates torcertain new and y@ useful improvements in the construction of 4 harness-saddles.l It has for its object to render the saddle automatically adjustable to the vbacks of differently-shaped horses; and with this end in view our invention consists in the peculiarities of construction and arrangementv hereinafter described and specifically claimed. In order that those skilled in the art to which our invention app'ertains may know how to make and use our improved saddle, we will proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring by letters to the uaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a rear elevation of a saddle embodying our inventiong/Fig. 2, a central lon- 2 5 gitudinal section, showing the saddle in a different adjustment from that shown at Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a top or plan view of the same. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the yoke removed. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the top plate, and 3o Fig. 6 is a cross-section taken at .fr a: of Fig. 2, showing the skirt-leather secured in place. The last three iigures are made on an enlarged scale.

Similar letters indicate like parts in the several iigures.

By the employment of our improved mode of construction and arrangement of parts, we areuenabled to secure theseveral parts together with great celerity, and assist in re- 4o lieving the skirts from the usual strain and wear at the point where the securing-screw passes through the same, and as will be readily understood by reference to the drawings and the description to follow hereinafter. The several parts being separably made and assembled renders it possible, in the event of breakage or wear of any one of said parts,.to remove such part or parts and substitute therefor a duplicate.

5o A represents ayoke, which is cast in one other.

piece, and to which is attached, either in the process of casting or by any other known way, a check-hook, B. This yoke is formed withthe ordinary back-strap loop, C. Each end of the yoke is formed with an eye, a, and eross- 5 5 bar b, the latter adapted to rest in a concave or depression, c, `cast in the upper end of the bottom plate, D, which is also formed at each end of said depression with upwardly-projecting lugs d, which serve to prevent any sidewise motion of the yoke A. The edges of the plate D extend upwardly to give a neat nish to the same, and to form a recess for the reception of the skirt-leathers E; and the upper end, above the depression c, is cast with an open slot, e, Fig. G, adapted to receive the tongue f of the top plate, F, which tongue j' is so shaped as to confine the cross-bar b of the yoke within the depression c, to form a hinge-joint. The lower portion of the bottoni plate is adapted to receive the upper end of the skirt-leather E, which is confined between f the top and bottom plates, F D, by a single screw, G, which draws said plates into parallelism and produces a clamp on the skirt- 7 5 leather, so as to serve as an auxiliary to the screw G. In order that the plates F D may be brought into the position described, the tongue on the former is bent, as shown, and the latter is correspondingly raised fora short 8o distance above the slot e, as clearly shown at Fig. 2. The plate D is secured t'o the pad by a short screw, g, at the upper end, and a nut within the pad. The screw G is secured in a similar manner, as clearly shown in the drawings. v

H H are the terrets, which are secured in placebelow the ends of the yoke by screwthreads and-nuts, in the usual way, and serve as additional means of securing the top and 9o bottom plates, F D, in proper relation to each The housing I is secured in place in the usual way, as clearly shown.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1 I 95 1. The yoke A, formedat its ends with eyes a and cross-bars b, in combination with the bottom plate, D, having a recess for the reception of the cross-bar b and upwardly-proj ecting lugs d, and the top plate, F, provided 10;)

with the1oeking-rongnef7 andadapted to bese- In testimony whereof we have hereunto set cured in place, substantially as and for the our hands in the presence' of two subscribing 1o purpose set forth. witnesses. v

2. The bottom plates, D7 provided at their y ALONZO C. RICKEY.

upper ends with recesses c and lugs d, Where- ED\VIN D. MYERS.

by the yoke may be held in place and secured Vitnesses:

against lateral or sidewise motion, substan- CHAS. GOETZMAN,

tially as hereinbefore set forth. C. L. MARSHALL. 

